metaphorm

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by metaphorm 9y ago
I think Satya comes from a dramatically different cultural and professional background than Ballmer and has a correspondingly different set of priorities and ideas. The difference is like night and day. Ballmer was all about monopolization,
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by metaphorm 9y ago
I can't claim to have any insight into group psychology here so I'll only speak for myself. I'm much more interested in the aspect of the story that has Marisa Mayer failing to save a sinking ship than I am interested in the
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by metaphorm 9y ago
I don't think there's anything gray about a car service booking app. The gray area is Uber's deliberate pushing of legal boundaries and using skechy business practices. Lyft is in the same business and has not become infamous
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by metaphorm 9y ago
> similar to how in capitalism products become obsoleted in favor of newer, better ones. this is idealistic and I think ignores a very important effect that is present in both consumer capitalism and in scientific research: the instituti
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by metaphorm 9y ago
I thought this was a fascinating read but it left a serious question lingering in my mind, which is a little out-of-scope for the article, but I hope someone here can address. Why did the GNU developers go to such lengths to optimize the ye
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by metaphorm 9y ago
> The "generation gap" is dead and buried. maybe for pop culture tastes (though I'm not so sure about that, access doesn't necessarily mean interest). there are huge social, political, and moral values differences bet
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by metaphorm 9y ago
how successful has Amazon been, historically, in enforcing these clauses? I've had Amazon recruiters trying to bring me in for an interview for several years now but keep avoiding it because of their reputation for sledgehammer managem
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by metaphorm 9y ago
the ones who own the technology
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by metaphorm 9y ago
IANAL but my impression is the provision in legal due process for expediency is relevant only to the criminal justice system. This example makes for a very good argument that it ought to also apply to the civil justice system. The main mech
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by metaphorm 9y ago
but you're talking about a hypothetical. the relevant question is has TraderJoes made that contract with their customers or not? The store does not have a membership program (like some retailers do), it is open to the general public fo
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by metaphorm 9y ago
more context for the headline quote. FTA: "While he calls AI “profound” and increasingly capable of doing unbelievable things, on matters that require judgment he’s not comfortable with automating the human entirely out of the equatio
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by metaphorm 9y ago
the four suits are explicitly tied to the classical elements (swords = air, wands = fire, pentacles = earth, cups = water) and the source material for the cards is drawn directly from Western esoteric traditions, especially Hermeticism and
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by metaphorm 9y ago
I think that's the wrong perspective. They don't tell or make the future. They have very little to do with the future. They take advantage of psychological archetypes to encourage examination of the present in a new context, which
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by metaphorm 9y ago
ok, so skip those parts then. there's lots of other stuff in there that is objectionable. encouraging of drunken recklessness is what struck me as the most inappropriate part. the remarks about consent for sex seem like they're pu
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by metaphorm 9y ago
Take the like/+1/retweet/etc. buttons off your website.
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by metaphorm 9y ago
no it doesn't, but I'm picking Bloomberg every time.
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by metaphorm 9y ago
I'm happy to see that people are using the LTS release as intended. Not surprised at all that the newest releases are the least used ones. More than a little surprised that version 1.6 still has any users at all, let alone how many it
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by metaphorm 9y ago
the way it addresses your objection is that the congressional voting power is proportional to popular vote received. unstated in the OP, but my supposition (reasonable, I hope), is that there will still be a limited number of congressional
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by metaphorm 9y ago
this breaks down quickly because most employment offers at startups don't use option compensation, er, optionally. it is a mandatory substitution for base salary.
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by metaphorm 9y ago
I don't think it's problematic. The duopoly system forces a large number of voters into "lesser evil" stances, or at least forces them to narrowly focus on their one pet issue and vote for candidates based only on that i
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by metaphorm 9y ago
what is an alternative to facebook (besides abstention, which I agree is viable in this product category)? the network effect is overwhelmingly strong.
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by metaphorm 9y ago
I think one of the real problems that doesn't get discussed very much is Google-envy. A lot of companies that don't really have problems like Google, and don't really have organizations like Google, and don't really have
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by metaphorm 9y ago
need context to determine what would be better. giving the same interview for every position you're hiring for is not usually the right thing to do. Google is very unusual in their practice of hiring into a general pool. Most companies
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by metaphorm 9y ago
let me now reply in more temperate and deliberate language, since this deserves discussion. I would appreciate it if when you disagree with me you attempt to discuss the disagreement with me instead of making assumptions about what I think
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by metaphorm 9y ago
> I'm baffled by the suggestion that reasonable responses somehow negate the hateful bile others post. If somebody gets sexually harassed by 3 people in the office, does it help to point out the other 17 people have done no sexual h
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by metaphorm 9y ago
what am I trying to do, exactly? Why don't you tell me again what I do think and believe, since you seem to be an expert on my mind and beliefs.
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by metaphorm 9y ago
I would ask you to reconsider your attitude here. There is a strong element of unfair and unfounded accusation in this thread that has basically created bad-faith dialogue here. While there may be insensitive or even overtly sexist people t
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by metaphorm 9y ago
humor with the intention of ridiculing something by using its own tropes to the point of absurdity to show the wrongness/badness of the thing is a well-established form of satire and commentary. a satirist is emphatically NOT in concor
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by metaphorm 9y ago
lets have a more realistic conversation about the consequences of shunning and ostracizing people, even if those people are noxious (in some way). does it really work? it seems to work in-so-far-as it purges specific communities of specific
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by metaphorm 9y ago
who is "they" and what did "they" say, specifically? can you quote someone? the discussion of speech issues is often about culture and norms rather than about legal statutes.

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